Pubs / An English country inn
The Green Man
An ancient face emerges from oak leaves and twisting branches above weathered green timber.
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Imaginary Inns & Curious Shops
Signs for places you wish you could visit.A FIELD GUIDE TO FICTIONAL PLACES
Behind the sign.
Every place has a story.
- WHERE TO FIND IT
- An English country inn
- ON THE BOOKSHELF
- Kingsley Amis · The Green Man
The local knowledge
Maurice Allington runs the Green Man, an inn whose haunting becomes far more than an appealing detail for visitors. Kingsley Amis’s novel combines a ghost story with dark comedy and its landlord’s troubled domestic life. The unsettling history of Thomas Underhill intrudes into the everyday business of hospitality.
Our interpretation
An ancient face emerges from oak leaves and twisting branches above weathered green timber. This imagined inn sign uses the traditional foliate-head motif to suggest the unease beneath an apparently welcoming country establishment.